- Children's fiction, Minnesota, fiction, Lumber and lumbering, fiction, Fiction
A young boy growing up on a northern Minnesota farm describes the scenes around him and recounts his old Norwegian uncle's tales of an almost mythological logging past.
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Earnest, contemplative, grave and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Gary Paulsen
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 103
- Publisher
- Tandem Library, Dell, Laurel Leaf
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9783596802241
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“If books could be more, could show more, could own more, this book would have smells....It would have the smells of old farms; the sweet smell of new-mown hay as it falls off the oiled sickle blade when the horses pull the mower through the field, and the sour smell of manure steaming in a winter barn.”
Gary James Paulsen (May 17, 1939 – October 13, 2021) was an American writer of children's and young adult fiction, best known for coming of age stories about the wilderness. He was the author of more than 200 books and wrote more than 200 magazine articles and short stories, and several plays, all primarily for teenagers. He won the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 1997 for his lifetime contribution in writing for teens.[ **Source**: [Gary Paulsen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Paulsen) on Wikipedia
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